Naan, is a specialty traditional food of ethnic minorities in the region of northwest China.
Naan is mainly consumed by people of the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, and Uzbek ethnic minorities. It is most concentrated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is a specialty food in the food culture of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang.
Naan is generally round, also known as naan bread, naan, is a kind of cake staple food of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. It is about the same size as Shandong's dead-flour (unleavened) naan bread, but thicker. The flavor is also very different from that of Shandong naan bread, which is made of leavened flour and baked to give it a crispier texture. After baking, the water content is very low, in China's arid Xinjiang region with little rain, naan can be stored for a long time without spoilage.
Expanded Information
Naan has a long history in Xinjiang, with a golden-colored crust, and was known in ancient times as "hu biscuits" and "oven biscuits". Naan to flour as the main raw material, most of the fermented noodles, but do not put the alkali and put a little salt. Naan is mostly round, the largest naan called "Amank" naan, thin in the middle, slightly thicker edges, the center of the poke with many patterns, the diameter of 40-50 centimeters. This kind of naan big to 1-2 kilograms of flour, known as the king of naan.
The smallest naan and the general mouth of a teacup so big, called "Torkasi" naan, more than 1 centimeter thick, is one of the finest workmanship of a small naan, there is a diameter of about 10 centimeters, about 5-6 centimeters thick, there is a hole in the middle of the "Gergid" naan, this is all the naan in the thickest of all a kind of naan. There are also many different types of naan and a wide variety of ingredients.
Types of Naan
There are more than fifty varieties of Naan, the most common are meat Naan, oil Naan, milk Naan, Gerdan Naan, sesame Naan, PiYaZi Naan, corn Naan, buckwheat Naan and so on.
Introduction to the Uyghur People
The Uyghur people live mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, mainly south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the oases around the Tarim Basin are the centers of the Uyghur people's settlements, with the Kashgar and Hotan oases, and the areas of the Aksu and Tarim Rivers being the most concentrated. The Turpan Basin, at the eastern end of the Tianshan Mountains, is also an area with a high concentration of Uyghurs.
North of the Tianshan Mountains, there are a few Uyghurs settled in the Ili Valley and the areas of Jimusar and Qitai. In addition, a small number of Uyghurs are found in Taoyuan County in Hunan Province and Mianchi County in Henan Province. The Uyghurs (Uyghur: ? , English Uygur), whose national language is Uyghur, belong to the Turkic group of the Altaic language family, and are divided into three dialects: center, Hotan, and Luobu.